As Indiana’s spring turkey season approaches, DNR wildlife research biologist Steve Backs said hunters should plan to work a little harder this year.
Spring turkey season begins with the youth season April 21-22. The regular spring turkey season is April 25 through May 13.
Backs is forecasting a spring turkey harvest of 11,000, plus or minus 1,000. His prediction is about 6 percent less than the 11,669 birds harvested in 2011, and 20 percent less than the 2010 spring harvest, when hunters bagged a...
Since the Alabama rig burst onto the largemouth bass fishing scene last year, winning tournaments and attracting fish as well as fishermen, it has been somewhat controversial.
Does it atract fish to effectively? Does it have too many hooks?
The rig has five spines or wires which can pull five hooks or baits. It has been ruled illegal in a few places and has been prohibited from the Bassmaster Elite bass tour and Bassmaster Classic tournament.
However, Indiana natural resources officials as well as those...
By Joe Martino
Every turkey hunt is one to remember, regardless of the outcome, but the one at the top of my list took place just last year. I began my spring turkey hunting in famed Pike County, Illinois with my son, Nicholas, who was just nine at the time. It was guided hunt with an outfitter I have hunted with for years in pursuit of both deer and turkeys and I just can’t imagine a spring turkey season without making the trip.
The first morning of our hunt found us in a ground blind overlooking a...
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